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小词详解 | tedious
tedious 英 [ˈtiːdiəs] 美 [ˈtiːdiəs]
Obtaining all these images from photo libraries would have been hard. Going out into the world and shooting them in person would have been tedious.
从照片库中找出所有这些图很麻烦,亲自到真实世界中拍照也是个乏味枯燥的活。
——《经济学人》This was a tedious undertaking of backing out rows of titanium screws that fastened the old plates to his bullet-wrecked jaw.
这是一项繁琐的工作,需要将一排排用来将旧托板固定在他因子弹受损的下巴上的钛螺钉拆掉。
——《纽约时报》
[形容词] 太长、太慢或太乏味的;令人厌倦的或单调的
我们不得不听他唠叨他那次抢救行动的繁琐细节。
We had to listen to the tedious details of his salvage operation.
拍摄工作使她承受了额外的压力。她开始怀疑自己会不会被这份枯燥的工作逼疯。
The filming imposed an additional strain on her. She began to wonder whether she wouldn't go mad with the tedium of the job.
I am in blood stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er.
我已经两足深陷于血泊之中,要是不再涉血前进,那么回头的路也是同样使人厌倦的。
dull: lacking interest or excitement humdrum: lacking excitement or variety; boringly monotonous mundane: very ordinary and therefore not interesting